The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-24
BrOadbrim's New. york Letter.


Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
II only seems like the other day since all
England was ablaze with excitement of the
Tichborne trial. From Land End to Var
mouth and from the Isle of Wight to the
Tweed great meetings were held to sustain
the Tichborne claimant, and over two hun
dred thausand pounds was raisdd in his be-
half, which was squandered in the English
lawicourts. The lawyers engaged on both
sides were among the abiest men in the
kingdom, and whatever the meretts OF de-
meits of the Australian fraud, the learned
judge who presided at the trial gained an
infamous notoriety by the partiality of his
rulings and his brutal treatment of the OPP
love of fair play, which has been the dis
tInguishing characteristic of Britons back
to the remotest ages. The sympathies of
an Englishman are generally with the under
dog in the fight, and this feeling il was
which reused all England TO aid this gigan-
tic fraud. 1t was the common people of
England against supposed crime by its
titled aristocracy, and yet in defence of the
rights of titled aristocrat; never was there
such paradox. The hod carrier, the coal
heayer and the poorly paid navy gave freely
part of his scant earnings to fight the Itch
borne battle. The result, as the world
knows, was the conviction of the arch-con,
spirator after one of the most remarkable
trio le l,a ,I Al,
financial ruin of the Tichborne family; a
ruin from which it is doubtful il it will
ever recover. The cause of all this ruin is
nov in New York and in very questionable
company.
For many years Chatham street has been
most unsayory locality in the city; where
it joins Chatham square and runs into the
Bowery il swarms with sharpers and thieves
Cheap restaurants, dirty rum shops and dis
reputable lodging houses line the street on
either side, while many of the shops whose
windows are filed with faded trinlIets and
plated jewelry are simply fences where
burglars know they can get rid of their
stolen goods and pickpockets are assured
of welcome by the sign outside, sold
gold and siioer bought and sold" The
saloons are of the lowest and most yillon-
GUS class and find no parallel in any other
part of New York. The Five Points is
within pistol shot; Pell street, with its dives
and its opinion joints, within a stone s-throw
Mott street, with its foul-smelling Chinese
and its dirty anslazaroni, forms part
of this yllainous colony; and it is here in a
rum-shop No.l0 Chatham Square that the
Lord of Tichbhrne has cast his lot.
man carrying in his veins the proud
blood of a race that came oyer with the Con
queror would have died before he would
have sunk TO tins wretched and miserable
estate. Death would have less terror fol
seen daily dealing out the vile liquors tC
those who visit his den, and If there is an,
man in England or elsewhere who still be
lieyes in the Tichborne claimant, one sigh
of him behind hIs dirty bar will Danish hi
romance forever.
As we approach the election we are con
fronted by an interesting problem. and tina
is the division of election inspectors amont
the different political parties. Up to tn
present election Irving Hall, as one of tn
political factors, has always had some sor
Of recognition, and its perfect autonom
and strict discipline has always secured 70
1t from one party or the other a reasonabl
division of the spoils. At the last election
however, the Country Democracy woul
have none of IL. Tammany Hrll did no
want IL; so to get even with its arrogan
coadjutors it threw the weight of its in
fiuence and political experience in fave
of Henry George and the Labor party, an
the result was sixty-seyen thousand vote
for the wage-winners, and in addition TO hi
personal service, Jimmy O'Brien the Irwin
Hall leader, sent his check TO the Ant
Poverty Society for six thousand dollars.
The Australians have an admirabl
weapon of offense, called the boomerang
its chief recommendation being that whe
thrown with perfect accuracy, IL general
returns TO hit the sender on the nose. Thi
was about the result 10 Mr.. O'Brien /
trying TO get even Will Tammany Hall an
the County Democracy Mayor Hewitt
his enemy, was elected by a triumphan
majority, winch was largely contributed /
BY old time Republicans who looked viii
dislike and dlstrust on Henry George an